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Knitted hat 17th century style, pipo 1600-luvun tyyliin

My son had a very precise wish for a new hat to go with all his other historical clothes: a copy of an old felted one from the collection of the National Museum of Copenhagen. The hat is depicted in a blog post by historian Paula Hohti, the same post that I stumbled across when looking for a pattern for the 17th century socks which I knitted for my son last summer.

I bought the wool at a Christmas fair directly from the producer. It’s a really fine, soft worsted wool in fingering weight. It comes from an old Finnish breed of sheep in natural colours: white, black, brown and grey. Perfect material for a historical hat in other words!

The hat is knitted with 2 mm needles and gently felted in the washing machine. There’s a flap folded to the inside to keep your ears warmer and my son plans to add a piece of linen to the forehead too to keep it from itching 🙂 The colours are very close to the ones of the original hat and are a good match to my son’s beard as well!